Fairfax, Virginia - After covering the winning entries from last fall's 1st through 12th grade George Montgomery/NRA Youth Wildlife Art Contest, we've begun sharing the other entries that caught our judges' eyes - the honorable mentions. Moving on to Category II, these honorable mentions come from our 4th through 6th grade entrants. Although only three entries from each category can place, these hand-picked pieces still ranked impressive in the contest's effort, creativity, anatomical accuracy, and composition criteria.

Without further ado and in no particular order, here are the honorable mentions from Category II.

Above is fifth grader YiYun Li's impressive drawing of a pair of big horn sheep, coming to us from Sugar Land, Texas.

Nancy Shao, another fifth grader from Sugar Land, Texas, made great use of color in this this drawing of a duck and duckling.

From Rockville, Maryland, fifth grader Michelle Kien sent us this wonderful pencil drawing of a chachalaca displaying its tail feathers.

The Irby family of Midlothian, Texas, are familiar faces in the Youth Wildlife Art Contest. Fourth grader Jordan received Honorable Mention last fall for this great watercolor of a deer.

Sixth grader Grace Yan of Belle Mead, New Jersey showed off her colored pencil skills with this stalking mountain lion.

Emily Liu, a sixth grader from Freemont, California, got her Honorable Mention for this drawing of two curious raccoon.

Congratulations to our Category II Honorable Mentions, as well as our contest winners and all of the aspiring artists who entered last year's contest. We have two more categories of beautiful art left!